Serving VFAT partitions with Samba

[Pann McCuaig <pann@lignomat.com>]

Brian asked

> Can anyone give me some pointers on serving some vfat partitions(on a
> dual boot Debian/Win95 machine) via samba to a win95 client?  What
> permissions/uid/gid do I need to mount the vfat partitions with so that
> any user who is using the share can access the vfat partitions.  This

I had to forward this to myself at work where we have a program that absolutely
insists its files be installed on a FAT partition, and we want to serve that
program with Samba. Here's what I do:

in /etc/smb.conf
----------------
[DBA]
   comment = DBA Manufacturing System
   path = /fat/dba
   guest account = nobody
   public = yes
   writable = yes

in /etc/fstab
-------------
/dev/hda3           /fat            msdos   rw,unhide,uid=65534,gid=65534

You should change the type from "msdos" to "vfat" and things should be peachy.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
 Pann


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